Kendalia Community Church

Duane's take

Here's how the official marker tells it, and here's how Duane tells it back to you. In 1882, a Boerne newspaper editor by the name of Carl Gustav Vogel and his wife Ettie started buying up land out in this part of the Hill Country. Now, they weren't just collecting acreage for the sake of it.

When the Kendalia Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized in 1886, the Vogels deeded this very site to that congregation. Just gave it over. And the community didn't wait around after that.

The residents themselves built this meetinghouse, right here on land the Vogels had put in their hands. For decades it stood as the gathering place for folks in this corner of Kendall County. Then came 1966, and the fellowship merged with First Methodist Church of Boerne.

Looked for a moment like that might be the end of the story for this old building. But a new congregation stepped forward, took on the name Kendalia Community Church, acquired the building, and kept right on serving the area. From a newspaper editor and his wife buying land in 1882, to neighbors raising a meetinghouse with their own hands, to a congregation that refuses to let the doors close.

Some buildings just have a way of holding on.

What the marker says

In 1882 Boerne newspaper editor Carl Gustav Vogel and his wife Ettie began buying land in this area. After Kendalia Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized in 1886, the Vogels deeded this site to the congregation. Community residents built this meetinghouse. The fellowship merged with First Methodist Church of Boerne in 1966. A new congregation, "Kendalia Community Church", acquired this building and continues to serve the area. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1979